On 28 May 1975, ABC broadcast a pilot for a proposed television series based on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. The pilot, starring Leslie Charleson and Bill Overton, centered on a racially mixed couple who confront the prospect of meeting each other's parents. In March 2005, Columbia Pictures released Guess Who, a comedy directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan loosely based on the film; however, black actor Bernie Mack took over Spencer Tracy's role of a disgruntled father dealing with his daughter's white finac played by Ashton Kutcher.